Guardian Cryptic #29813

2025-09-30

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Across

1a

Students here affected America (6)

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5a

Tom possibly on a search for dead accommodating place (8)

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9a

Dodgy football club concealing debt (8)

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10a

Lines of type or squiggles (6)

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11a

Before gossip, stand aside (5,7)

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13a

Backward Yanks study!? (4)

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14a

What makes the real you deny ittwice, brazenly? (8)

Generating...

I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:

An anagram (‘brazenly’) of ‘deny it’ plus another ‘it’ (‘twice’).

17a

Underwear that’s exasperating (8)

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18a

Catch wife in embrace of mate (4)

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20a

Crime of old lady: nabbing rocking cradle (5,7)

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23a

Use milk, almost curdled, for breakfast? (6)

Generating...

I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:

An anagram (‘curdled’) of ‘use mil[k]’ minus the last letter (‘almost’). I’m sure some will want to include ‘for’ in the definition.

24a

Display lamb cooked in controlled zone (8)

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25a

Mature blend of rye? That’s cheating! (8)

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26a

Good as a woodwind sectionbut insatiable (6)

Generating...

I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:

A charade of G (‘good’) plus REEDY (‘as a woodwind section’).

Down

2d

Range of adult records from former times (4)

Generating...

I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:

A charade of A (‘adult’) plus LPS (‘recors from former times’).

3d

Soldiers, with one jerk clinging on for support (9)

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4d

Labour needs a new election catchphrase? (6)

Generating...

I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:

A charade of SLOG (‘labour’) plus ‘a’ plus N (‘new’).

5d

Customer is e.g. about to be covered in blubber as a means of improving looks? (8,7)

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6d

Bugs, garden tools, dance wear (3,5)

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7d

Garnish shows one’s out of touch romantically (5)

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8d

Could be Ludlow’s ATM network needs fixing (6,4)

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12d

Bird needs a shot to move gracefully (4,6)

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15d

Sort of trifle that produces tight coat! (5,4)

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16d

French writer’s not entirely over LA“inexorable!” (8)

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19d

Sucker’s base program error (6)

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21d

Nosy overseer of missions by lake (5)

Generating...

I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:

A charade of NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, ‘overseer of missions’) plus L (‘lake’).

22d

Pound to go out of business (4)

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